Saturday, 17 January 2026

Ruffs and seabirds..

A seawatch at the Bill was rewarded with an Little Gull picked up by JA and a Velvet Scoter found by SH, all I had to do was point the scope in the right direction!!

At the Ferry Pool the North Wall boys had found a Ruff and together we added a couple more for three in total and these were birds that I was glad to see after missing out over the last week or so.

At Drayton there were four Egyptian Geese but no sign of the Bittern (it's probably in the massive reedbeds on the inaccesible pit) but I did pick up Chiffchaff for the year-small steps and all that...an evening look at the Marina for Bittern might be worth a look sometime I was thinking...

Ruff:


Egyptian Geese: